Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several ..."mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"O what unlucky streak Twisting inside me, made me break the line?... What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, And what bright unreal path has led me here?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there!... I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk--handsome, twentytwoyearold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only p...air were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now fades the lasts long streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick... About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Toby Belch. Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? Feste. Yes, by Saint Anne, an...d ginger shall be hot i'the mouth, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »